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After weeks of delay, the House voted Thursday to fund much of the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and send the bipartisan package to\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0to sign, ending the longest agency shutdown in history.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0White House had warned\u00a0that temporary funding\u00a0Trump had tapped\u00a0to pay Transportation Security Administration and other agency personnel would \u201csoon run out,\u201d and that sparked new threats of airport disruptions.<\/p>\n
DHS has been without routine funds since Feb. 14, causing hardship for workers, though much of Trump\u2019s immigration agenda that is\u00a0central to the dispute\u00a0is being funded separately.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is about damn time,\u201d said Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, who proposed the bill more than 70 days ago.<\/p>\n
The House swiftly voted by voice, without a formal roll call, to pass the measure. It was an abrupt end to the standoff that began months ago, after Trump\u2019s deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis launched a reckoning on Capitol Hill over the money being sent to fuel the president\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n
Democrats refused to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol without\u00a0changes to those operations\u00a0after the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents during protests against the immigration actions in Minneapolis. Republicans would not go along with a plan pushed by Democrats to fund TSA and the other parts of DHS without the money for ICE and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n
While the Senate unanimously approved the bipartisan package a month ago, the\u00a0bill languished in the House.<\/p>\n
Johnson, R-La., himself had just last month\u00a0called the bill a \u201cjoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
To break the impasse, Republicans in both the House and Senate decided to tackle the immigration enforcement funding on their own through what is called budget reconciliation, a cumbersome weekslong process ahead.<\/p>\n
By beginning that budget process Johnson was able to unlock a broader bipartisan bill for TSA agents and the rest of DHS. House Republicans late Wednesday adopted budget resolution on a largely party-line vote, 215-211, that is focused on eventually providing $70 billion for immigration enforcement and deportations for the remainder of Trump\u2019s time in office and ensure Democrats can no longer block funding. Trump\u2019s term ends in January 2029.<\/p>\n
Johnson acknowledged after the vote that he had trashed the bill before. But he said that with the new budget process for funding immigration enforcement on its own, he was ready to pass it \u201cwith no crazy Democrat reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n
One key Republican, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, said isolating the immigration-related money on a separate track is \u201coffensive to the men and women who serve in ICE and Border Patrol, and are serving this country every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The White House urged Congress this week to act, warning that the\u00a0money Trump tapped\u00a0to temporarily pay TSA and other workers through executive actions was drying up.<\/p>\n
\u201cDHS will soon run out of critical operating funds, placing essential personnel and operations at risk,\u201d said a memo Tuesday from the Office of Management and Budget. Most of its employees are considered essential and have remained on the job.<\/p>\n
Immigration enforcement workers have largely been paid through the flush of new cash \u2014 some $170 billion \u2014 that Congress approved as part of Trump\u2019s tax cuts bill last year. Others, including at the TSA, have had to rely on Trump\u2019s intervention through executive action to ensure their paychecks.<\/p>\n
But with salaries topping $1.6 billion every two weeks, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said recently, those funds were dwindling.<\/p>\n
More than 1,000 TSA officers have quit since the shutdown began, according to Airlines for America, the U.S. airlines trade group that on Wednesday called on Congress to fully fund the Cabinet department.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe urgency to provide predictable and stable funding for TSA is growing stronger by the day,\u201d the group said in a statement. \u201cTime and time again, our nation\u2019s aviation workers and customers have been the victim of Congress\u2019 failure to do their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The go-it-alone strategy under the budget resolution process is the same that was used last year to approve Trump\u2019s tax cuts bill, which all Democrats opposed.<\/p>\n
With the budget resolution now adopted by the House and Senate, lawmakers will next draft the actual $70 billion ICE and Border Patrol funding bill, with voting expected in May.<\/p>\n
Trump has said he wants it on his desk by June 1.<\/p>\n
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Associated Press writer Rio Yamat in Las Vegas contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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